Cosmin Neagu wrote: > Hello everybody, > First time here, so if it is a stupid questions, sorry for that. > I have just installed nagios 3.2.0 an have some host and services > monitoring. > Is installed on SuSE 10.2. The only thing that i don't know hot to do, > is making nagios to send emails. Never configured stuff relating to > emails before. > From what i see from commands.cfg, by default it tries to send email > with: /usr/bin/mail -s. > But the email ends up in a local folder /var/mail/cosmin. > Can anyone help me with some documentation or some advice on how can i > make nagios send emails? > Thanks. > > Nagios is correctly sending emails via the OS system utilities. Now what you really want is for the OS to push them somewhere else.
I use SuSE Linux here and it uses Postfix for email and I know how to forward email and setup Postfix when forwarding to another server to use smtp auth. If you need a bit of advice on Postfix, let me know. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
